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[quote=Anonymous]I hail from a state that people love to make fun of.  It's the butt of comedians' jokes, and it's the very definition of flyover.

I LIVE in a Ward 3 neighborhood that DCUMers love to pick on.  All of my neighbors are Important People In Their Own Minds.  Many are insufferable and condescending.  Many are unbelievably lazy, though they call it "strapped for time" because that's what affluent, highly educated folk call it  -- but, in reality, if they could hire a recent immigrant with brown skin to bend over and pick up their dropped keys so they don't have to, they surely would.  I mean, that person is already down there picking up their labradoodle's shit for them, right? Why not get the dropped item while they're down there?

I love going home to Flyover State and whenever I do, I am struck by how industrious everyone is.  They're also tough.   From my peeps, I have learned industry and resourcefulness. I am encouraged to buck up and not whine (even in my own head).

[[The life expectancy in this state is very high, possibly the highest in the U.S. and I've always believed it's because residents keep moving throughout their lives and clean their own gutters / mow their own grass / shovel the sidewalk into their 70s / weed their own gardens.]]

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